'Kashmir Protests' - 217 News Result(s)

For six years, young people from Kashmir have been making headlines by cracking competitive national exams - the tough IIT and IAS. The closure of schools for the last three months, due to the unrest following the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani -- have thus hit the student community hard.

The scrapping of high value currency notes has had an immediate, positive fallout in Kashmir, the Central government has indicated. Srinagar is slowly slipping into normalcy. The separatist sponsored strike call loses steam as the protesters throwing stones have gone off the road.

India today summoned the Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan, Syed Haider Shah, to register protest over the recent escalation in ceasefire violations by Pakistan at the Line of Control and the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir, which have resulted in more than 10 deaths.

Possibly for the first time in Kashmir, Chinese flags have been found in raids along with material that was allegedly to be used by terrorists - petrol bombs, anti-India publicity material, unauthorized cellphones and documents linked to terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba.

After 79 days and more than 80 deaths, curfew and restrictions have been lifted from all parts of the Kashmir valley. The curfew had been in place since July 9, a day after the killing of 22-year-old Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani, which had triggered massive protests across the Kashmir Valley.

Tariq Hameed Karra, a founding member of Jammu and Kashmir's ruling People's Democratic Party and a lawmaker from Srinagar has formally resigned from the Lok Sabha in protest of the "failure" of Parliament to end violence in Kashmir.

The last time 17-year-old Suraya Gulzar was in a classroom was three months ago. Suraya had to stop going to school in South Kashmir's Anantnag since clashes broke out in the Valley following the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani.

Rejecting a plea seeking ban on use of pellet guns in controlling street protests, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has cited the ground situation and observed that as long as there is violence by unruly mobs, use of force is inevitable.

In a sharp rejoinder to Nawaz Sharif's speech at the UN on Wednesday, in which he raised the Kashmir protests and glorified terrorist Burhan Wani, India described Pakistan as host to "the Ivy League of terrorism".